In 2009 The Modern House sold Ansty Plum – a remarkable 60s modernist house in Wiltshire – to Architect Sandra Coppin and her husband Nico. In this interview, published in The Guardian last week, the couple explain how they discovered and fell in love with the property.

“An internet search threw up this intriguing 60s modernist house in a small Wiltshire village […] Coppin stresses: “We were not interested. It didn’t fit the brief at all. A one-bedroom house, on a third of an acre, in the middle of nowhere. But I saw that it had a little studio built by the Smithsons, so my interest was piqued. We just thought: ‘Let’s go, have a pub lunch, and pretend we’re going to buy it.'”

“But from the instant they arrived, they were hooked. “I’ll never forget it,” Coppin recalls, face clasped in her hands. “Walking up that ramp and arriving at the front door… It’s on such a steep slope, with this ancient woodland behind. You turn around and look down over the valley at the village pond and past this very special collection of 12th-century buildings. I’d never seen anything like it. Nico and I walked around the house for about 20 minutes in silence, and met back at the front door. And he just said: ‘This… is… amazing.’”

Read the full interview here.